Lenis – Get smooth or die trying • Hacker News Board

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#31

Post by NotYourLawyer » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:16 PM UTC

Absolute garbage idea. Don’t fuck with my scrollbar. My browser is set to do what I want it to do. It knows better than you do.

In fact, your site probably doesn’t need JavaScript at all. Everything since the late 90s has been a step in the wrong direction.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#32

Post by p1necone » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:20 PM UTC

gw98 wrote: post #22

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen of content surrounded in an ocean of bollocks.

The i5-12400 is actually a really fast CPU. Basically any desktop CPU released since AMD scared Intel into actually trying again is pretty fast, even the supposed low-mid range ones.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#33

Post by strken » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

Does anyone have the equivalent of Kill Sticky but for scroll hijacking? It unfortunately wouldn't work for this site, but might work for others.

It's about as smooth as curdled milk running in Firefox on my 5 year old Thinkpad, and borderline unusable in Chrome on my ancient Android phone.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#34

Post by winrid » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

This page lags on my S22 Ultra...

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#35

Post by gw98 » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:29 PM UTC

p1necone wrote: post #32

gw98 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen of content surrounded in an ocean of bollocks.

The i5-12400 is actually a really fast CPU. Basically any desktop CPU released since AMD scared Intel into actually trying again is pretty fast, even the supposed low-mid range ones.

Yes indeed massively impressed with this machine. Cost bugger all as well (Lenovo Neo 50S gen3)

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#36

Post by hamosch » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

Client side exception when scrolling down a little and back to the top on mobile safari, so much smoother than the regular scroll

Also doesn’t play nicely with the fade in of the safari bottom toolbar

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#37

Post by giantdude » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

immediately crashed. "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred. See browser console for more info". Enough for me.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#38

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

cweagans wrote: post #25

snapcaster wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad this comment was here haha, I'm on an m1 ultra macbook pro (the m2s haven't shipped yet?) and it does scroll really smoothly

M2 Macbook Pros are definitely available: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch

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Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#39

Post by vsskanth » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:36 PM UTC

It's not smooth on mobile Firefox

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

#40

Post by birdyrooster » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

gw98 wrote: post #22

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen of content surrounded in an ocean of bollocks.

But the whole point of the website is scrolling, they had to include scrolling.